Fly-In Safari
Overview
Arusha · Serengeti · Ngorongoro · Karatu · Mto wa Mbu · Tarangire
Every day here is private — your own guide and your own vehicle — so the order holds but the hours are yours to move.
You are met at Kilimanjaro International Airport and driven to Hamerkop House by Lemala, a quiet boutique house near Arusha.
The evening is for settling in and getting over the journey.
Your Stay
Hamerkop House by Lemala
After breakfast you transfer to Arusha Airport for the scheduled flight into the Serengeti — far less time on the road, and more of it on game drives.
Your guide meets you on arrival and the first drive starts across the plains, home to the Big Five, the Great Wildebeest Migration and some of the densest predator populations in Africa.
Your Stay
Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge
A full day in the central Serengeti, around the Seronera Valley, where permanent water keeps the game in place all year and the predator sightings are some of the best in the park.
Morning and afternoon drives after lion, leopard, cheetah and elephant, and the herds moving across the plains.
A second full day, which lets your guide follow the animals and try different parts of the park.
Depending on the season, that may mean part of the Great Wildebeest Migration, predators at work, or big gatherings of game out on the plains.
A last morning game drive in the Serengeti, then the drive south-east through the Ngorongoro Conservation Area as the plains give way to the highlands around the crater.
You finish at Lion’s Paw Camp, near the rim and looking over it.
Your Stay
Lion's Paw Camp
Down more than 600 metres onto the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage site, which holds a remarkable concentration of animals and good odds on the Big Five — the endangered black rhino among them.
Afterwards you drive on to the Karatu highlands and Kitela Lodge, where a guided walk through the coffee plantation is part of the stay.
Your Stay
Kitela Lodge
After breakfast to Mto wa Mbu, one of the most culturally mixed communities in Tanzania, for a visit that covers its traditions, its farming and the way people live there.
Then on to Tarangire for an afternoon and evening game drive among the elephant herds and the old baobabs. As the other vehicles head out of the park you stay on, and have it far more to yourselves.
Your Stay
Elephant Springs by Karibu Camps
A morning game drive in Tarangire, in the best hours of the day for it.
Then the road towards Kilimanjaro International Airport, stopping in Arusha at Shanga, a social enterprise where Tanzanian artisans make glassware, jewellery, textiles and other handcrafted work.
Then the airport, and your onward flight.
Everything below is settled before you travel. What isn’t covered is listed just as plainly, so nothing on this trip arrives as a surprise.
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Four questions — what you'd like to see, who is coming and roughly when — and the team in Arusha comes back with dates, the camps that are open and what the 8-day rate looks like for your party. We reply within one working day.
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